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2B Daily News – Tuesday, July 31, 2012 PEANUTS® MONDAY COMICS By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Monday, July 30, the 212th day of 2012. There are 154 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: DILBERT® By Scott Adams On July 30, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women's auxiliary agency in the Navy known as ''Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Ser- vice'' — WAVES for short. On this date: In 1619, the first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony. In 1729, Baltimore, Md. was founded. In 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces tried to take years. Petersburg, Va., by exploding a gunpowder-filled mine under Confederate defense lines; the attack failed. In 1912, Emperor Meiji of Japan died after a reign of 45 Infantry Regiment, was killed during the Second Battle of the Marne in World War I. (Kilmer is perhaps best remem- bered for his poem ''Trees.'') In 1918, poet Joyce Kilmer, a sergeant in the 165th U.S. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake In 1945, the Portland class heavy cruiser USS Indi- anapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during World War II; only 316 out of some 1,200 men survived. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a mea- sure making ''In God We Trust'' the national motto, replac- ing ''E Pluribus Unum'' (''Out of many, one''). In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Medicare bill, which went into effect the following year. In 1975, former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit; although presumed dead, his remains have never been found. Ten years ago: President George W. Bush signed into law the most far-reaching government crackdown on business fraud since the Depression. Expelled from Congress a week earlier, an unrepentant James A. Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for corruption; the Ohio Democ- rat made it clear he intended to run for re-election from his prison cell, and win. (He didn't.) Pope John Paul II canon- ized Pedro de San Jose Betancur, Central America's first saint. WNBA player Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks became the first woman to dunk in a professional game, jamming on a breakaway in the first half of the Sparks' 82- 73 loss to the Miami Sol. Five years ago: President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, meeting at Camp David, forged a unified stand on Iraq. Chief Justice John Roberts was taken to a hospital after a seizure caused him to fall on a dock near his summer home in Maine. One year ago: NATO jets bombed three Libyan state TV satellite transmitters in Tripoli, targeting a propaganda tool in Moammar Gadhafi's fight against rebels. Today's Birthdays: Actor Richard Johnson is 85. Actor Angeles. BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker HAGAR the Horrible® By Chris Browne Edd ''Kookie'' Byrnes is 79. Major League Baseball Com- missioner Bud Selig is 78. Blues musician Buddy Guy is 76. Movie director Peter Bogdanovich is 73. Feminist activist Eleanor Smeal is 73. Former U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., is 72. Singer Paul Anka is 71. Jazz musician David Sanborn is 67. Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is 65. Actor William Atherton is 65. Actor Jean Reno is 64. Blues singer-musician Otis Taylor is 64. Actor Frank Stallone is 62. Actor Ken Olin is 58. Actress Delta Burke is 56. Law professor Anita Hill is 56. Singer- songwriter Kate Bush is 54. Country singer Neal McCoy is 54. Actor Richard Burgi is 54. Movie director Richard Lin- klater is 52. Actor Laurence Fishburne is 51. Actress Lisa Kudrow is 49. Bluegrass musician Danny Roberts (The Grascals) is 49. Country musician Dwayne O'Brien is 48. Actress Vivica A. Fox is 48. Actor Terry Crews is 44. Actor Simon Baker is 43. Movie director Christopher Nolan (''The Dark Night'') is 42. Actor Tom Green is 41. Actress Hilary Swank is 38. Olympic gold medal beach volleyball player Misty May-Treanor is 35. Actress Jaime Pressly is 35. Thought for Today: ''The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.'' — O.A. Battista, Canadian-born author-scientist. RUBES® By Leigh Rubin In 1932, the Summer Olympic Games opened in Los ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP